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Forget Bans: UN Stuck on Defining Killer Robots
By Jeremy Hsu | December 18, 2017 10:28 pm
A United Nations meeting on lethal autonomous weapons ended in disappointment for advocates hoping that the world would make progress on regulating or banning “killer robot†technologies. The UN group of governmental experts barely even scratched the surface of defining what counts as a lethal autonomous weapon. But instead of trying to create a catch-all killer robots definition, they might have better luck next time focusing on the role of humans in controlling such autonomous weapons.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2017/12/18/forget-bans-un-stuck-on-defining-killer-robots/#.Wk-pbjdG10g (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2017/12/18/forget-bans-un-stuck-on-defining-killer-robots/#.Wk-pbjdG10g)